If your Thief is caught by the city guard doing something illicit, you might need to deceive them in order to avoid jail time. Since Rogues tend to work outside the traditional confines of the law, you should definitely use Charisma as your next priority. This helps them disappear when they want to, and as long as you are using ranged weapons, or melee weapons with the “Finesse” property, you can add your Dexterity to all of your attack actions. THIEFĪll Rogues are masters of stealth and want to make sure they prioritize Dexterity. You should have a plan when creating your character to make sure you don’t accidentally use Intelligence as a dump stat (a statistic you place your lowest statistic into because it isn’t necessary to your character class) and then decide at Level 3 that you really want to be a sneaky magic user. Rogues are a really unique class in that each Roguish Archetype is so drastically different.

Statistics in D&D represent all of the ways your character interacts with the world around them. If this is your first time playing D&D, make sure you check out our tips for new RPG players so you don’t end up with a character you don’t enjoy playing. Rogues are masters of stealth and always use this fact to their advantage, whether they are killing an enemy or picking their pockets. This isn’t to say that Rogues aren’t brave and they’re trying to retreat odds are, they are just trying to get behind the enemy and try to get a killing blow that finishes the fight before it even starts. There’s nothing like playing the sneaky character who disappears into the shadows at the first sign of danger. Rogues are as intrinsically a part of D&D as Bards.

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